Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 295, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — People's Verdict Reversed. [ARTICLE]

People's Verdict Reversed.

William Henry Harrison ran for' president twice. Tn 1835 he was nominated by an anti-Masonic convention held In Philadelphia and was defeated by Martin Van Buren. In 1840 he was nominated by the Whig party, running a second time against Van Buren and def eating him by a large Majority. In the first election. Van Buren received 17Q electoral votes fb Harrison’s 73; in the second election Harrison received 234 electoral vote* to Van Buren’s 60.